Cultural Production of Economic Rationalities

本提案旨在研究经济行为的一般信念和具体原因之间的中间地带，使用新英格兰工业化（1790-1860）中行动者的话语作为案例材料。社会理论研究采用区域内经济行为者研究，涉及三种类型的分析。首先，对经济理性的文化话语形成的哲学理论概念进行澄清，最终形成“生产的文化秩序”概念。第二，对新英格兰早期经济行动者的话语构成和经济形式的文化建构展开新的历史研究。第三，本文将新英格兰工业化文化生产的理论与实证结果相结合。主要的实证研究涉及从工业化前的新英格兰道德经济中产生的不同类型的现代制造系统。将在小生产者迅速成为现代资本主义企业家的几个城镇开展地方历史工作。这项研究意义重大，因为它表明经济活动有文化根源。第二，将区域经济发展置于更广阔的文化框架中。

Clark U. This proposal is for research which examines the middle ground between general beliefs and specific reasons for economic action using the discourses of actors in New England's industrialization (1790-1860) as case material. The social theoretic research uses an intra-regional study of economic actors and involves three types of analysis. First, a clarification of the philosophical-theoretical notion of the cultural-discursive formation of economic rationality is intended which will culminate in a `cultural order of production` concept. Second, new historical research will be initiated on the discursive constitution of early economic actors in New England and the cultural construction of economic forms. Third, the work will synthesize theory with empirical findings in a cultural production of New England industrialization. The main empirical research involves distinct types of modern manufacturing systems which have emerged from the pre-industrial New England moral economy. Local history work will be carried out in several towns where small producers rapidly became modern capitalist entrepreneurs. The research is significant because it shows that economic activities have cultural origins. Second, the work will place regional economic development in a broader cultural framework.